From a Silk Cocoon
PARTNER
Densho
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OBJECT ID
ddr-densho-1024-54
PARENT COLLECTION
Digital Library of Japanese American Incarceration Films
DESCRIPTION
Documentary film recounting the wartime story of a Kibei couple, Itaru and Shizuko Ina and their two young children as reconstructed by their daughter Satsuki Ina. Ina and co-directors Emery Clay III and Stephen Holsapple tell the story largely through the couple's own words in the form of Shizuko's diary and letters to each other when they become separated in the course of their incarceration.
See this item in the Densho Resource Guide at: From a Silk Cocoon.
See this item in the Digital Library of the Japanese American Incarceration Films at: https://archive.org/details/ddr-densho-1024-54.
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OBJECT GENRE
Motion Pictures
OBJECT FORMAT
Audio/Visual
CREATORS
- Clay, Emery III (Director)
- Ina, Satsuki (Producer, Writer)
- Inada, Lawson Fusao (Narrator)
- Koga, Masayuki (Music)
- Holsapple,Stephen (Cinematography)
- Hesono O Productions (Studio)
- Center for Asian American Media (Distributor)
PERSONS/ORGANIZATIONS
CONTRIBUTOR
Densho
PREFERRED CITATION
Courtesy of Japanese American Film Preservation Project, Densho
RIGHTS
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.